Marcel Proust has been identified in a 1904 film DOMITOR congratulates Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan, Domitor member, who in his article of the Revue d’études proustiennes argues that Marcel Proust has been captured on film while leaving the 1904 wedding of the daughter of the Countess…
The EYE received the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Award 2017 DOMITOR congratulates the EYE Film Insitute Netherlands, recipient of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival Award 2017. The extraordinary programs for which our friends at EYE have been recognized notably included “Fantasia of Color…
DISCOVERY AT EYE A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket, István Bródy, Hungary, 1915) DOMITOR congratulates the Dutch researchers at the Amsterdam-based EYE Film Institute who have discovered one of the oldest extant Hungarian films: A Munkászubbony (The Work Jacket), shown on January 12th, 1915. Lost for decades, The…
British Silent Film Festival Symposium 2017 6th & 7th April 2017 King’s College, London The British Silent Film Festival affords scholars, archivists and enthusiasts the opportunity to re-asses film-making in Britain between 1895 and 1930. By bringing forgotten films out of the archive, and encouraging scholarly activity…
Colour in Film Monday to Wednesday 27 – 29 March 2017 BFI Southbank and Friends House, London This conference will cover the entire breadth of colour in moving images, from early (pre)cinema’s chromolithographic printing through the applied colours of tinting, toning and their Desmetcolor rendition, from chromogenic Agfacolor…
Music and sound in silent cinema 2018 issue of Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image Thematic section guest-edited by Manuel Deniz Silva Call for papers detail Deadline: June 16, 2017
Starting January 14th in Washington DC: The Desmet Collection at the National Gallery of Art! “Belgian-born film impresario Jean Desmet (1875 – 1956) — carnival showman turned successful theatrical exhibitor and distributor — spurred the growth of a new urban film culture in Europe before and during…
The 35th edition of the Giornate del Cinema Muto is happening this week, Oct. 1-8, 2016, with many Domitor members and leaders in attendance. Highlights include another look at the origins of early Westerns; more city symphonies; tributes to William Cameron Menzies, Al…
The Fourteenth International Domitor Conference was held at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, June 14-17, 2016. The conference was sponsored by Stockholm University and the Swedish Film Institute. The conference,”Viscera, Skin, and Physical Form: Corporeality and Early Cinema,” explored the role of the body in…
The 2016 archival film festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato, will be held in Bologna from June 25-July 2. This year marks the festival’s 30th anniversary, which will bring together a rich community of archivists, critics, historians, artists, and the public to celebrate with hundreds of programmed…
